Why is this program valid? I was trying to create a syntax error

Question

I\'m running ActiveState\'s 32 bit ActivePerl 5.14.2 on Windows 7. I wanted to mess around with a Git pre-commit hook to detect programs being checked in with syntax errors.

Answer 1

I don't know why, but this is what Perl makes of it:

perl -MO=Deparse -w yuck
BEGIN { $^W = 1; }
use warnings;
use strict 'refs';
'error'->Syntax(!exit(0));
yuck syntax OK

It seems that the parser thinks you're calling the method Syntax on the error-object... Strange indeed!